Books like Contact
12 books with a reading profile close to Contact by Carl Sagan. Contemplative; a moderate read.
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
by Claire North
philosophy, narrative
Harry August is a kalachakra, a man who lives his life in a loop.
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The Word for World Is Forest
philosophy, science fiction
On the planet Athshe, human colonists from Earth have established a logging colony to strip the world of its timber.
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Yol
Also contemplative · philosophy, narrative
A father and his son are the only characters who really matter in this novel.
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The Road
Also contemplative · philosophy, narrative
An unnamed father and his young son walk southward through a scorched American landscape years after an unspecified cataclysm.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Also contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Genly Ai arrives on the frozen planet Gethen as an envoy representing the Ekumen, a coalition of human worlds.
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Timequake
narrative, science fiction
In 2001 the universe's expansion hits a snag and snaps back to 1991, forcing everyone to relive the following ten years exactly as before, unable to change a thing.
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Roadside Picnic
philosophy, science fiction
The narrative follows Redrick Schuhart, a professional stalker who illegally ventures into the Zone, one of several locations on Earth littered with mysterious debris following a brief extraterrestrial visit.
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The Anomaly
narrative, science fiction
In March 2021, an Air France flight from Paris to New York flies into a violent storm and lands safely at JFK.
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The Mountain in the Sea
by Ray Nayler
narrative, science fiction
Marine biologist Ha Nguyen travels to the remote Con Dao Archipelago to study a colony of octopuses that has developed a sophisticated culture, a symbolic language, and a defensive autonomy.
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American War
narrative, science fiction
In the late twenty-first century, a second American Civil War erupts after federal legislation bans fossil fuels.
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Yakma Zevki
by Ray Bradbury
narrative, science fiction
Yakma Zevki, or Pleasure to Burn, is a collection of sixteen short stories and early drafts that trace the evolution of the concept eventually known as Fahrenheit 451.
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